4. Academic Policies and Procedures

Notes

1. This section applies to all undergraduate students. Graduate grades of scholarship, including incomplete grades, are explained in the Graduate Catalog.

2. This section applies to all undergraduate students. Graduate grades of scholarship, including incomplete grades, are explained in the Graduate Catalog.

3. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Natural Sciences are permitted to take up to sixteen semester hours of classroom or correspondence credit in elective courses on the pass/fail basis. Plan II students may take up to nineteen semester hours of elective courses on the pass/fail basis. Only two courses a semester may be taken on this basis after a student has thirty semester hours of credit.

3a. This sentence was omitted in error from the printed edition of this catalog.

4. Credit by examination cannot be reported to the registrar for former students who are prohibited from enrolling in Texas public colleges and universities due to noncompliance with Texas Success Initiative regulations.

5. Each grade point average is the minimum required for graduation with honors, high honors, or highest honors. Because only a certain percentage of the class may receive honors, the average required for each category may be higher.

6. To graduate with University honors, a student in the McCombs School must have completed at least sixty semester hours of coursework in residence at the University.

7. To graduate with University honors, a student in the College of Communication must have completed at the University at least sixty semester hours of coursework counted toward the degree.

8. To graduate with University honors, a student in the College of Engineering must have completed in residence at the University at least sixty semester hours of coursework counted toward the degree. The grade point average used to determine graduation with honors includes only grades in courses taken in residence. A student may receive only one bachelor's degree with University honors from the College of Engineering.

9. To graduate with University honors, a student in the College of Fine Arts must rank in the indicated percent of students graduating that semester from his or her academic unit (art and art history, music, or theatre and dance) and must have no outstanding delay of grade (symbol X). He or she must have completed at least sixty semester hours of coursework in residence at the University. A student may receive only one bachelor's degree with University honors from the College of Fine Arts.